[Crash-utility] diskdump/x86_64 crash compatibility.

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 17:36:45 UTC 2005


Neil Horman wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:07:41PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all-
> > >         If I have a RHEL4 crash dump taken from an AMD x86_64 machine, should I
> > > be able to examine that vmcore using crash-4.0.1 on a RHEL4 box running on EM64T
> > > hardware?  I would have assumed that I would be able to, but I keep getting file
> > > format errors when trying to read the core.
> > > Neil
> > >
> >
> > Yes, it should.  What's the output look like?
> >
> Here it is.  About the only things that stand out to is that the PARTIAL_DUMP
> flag is set in the ELF header.  I wouldn't think a partial dump would have
> produced this error message however, since the ELF and program headers are all
> still in tact.
> Neil
>
> crash 4.0-2.6
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> vmcore_data:
>                   flags: 19 (NETDUMP_LOCAL|NETDUMP_ELF64|PARTIAL_DUMP)
>                    ndfd: 3
>                     ofp: 3a20c2d8c0
>             header_size: 4096
>    num_pt_load_segments: 2
>      pt_load_segment[0]:
>             file_offset: 1000
>              phys_start: 0
>                phys_end: e0000000
>      pt_load_segment[1]:
>             file_offset: e0001000
>              phys_start: 100000000
>                phys_end: 120000000
>              elf_header: 901c70
>                   elf32: 0
>                 notes32: 0
>                  load32: 0
>                   elf64: 901c70
>                 notes64: 901cb0
>                  load64: 901ce8
>             nt_prstatus: 901d58
>             nt_prpsinfo: 901eb8
>           nt_taskstruct: 901f50
>             task_struct: 10041f697f0
>               page_size: 4096
>            switch_stack: 0
>      num_prstatus_notes: 1
>      nt_prstatus_percpu: 0000000000901d58
>
> Elf64_Ehdr:
>                 e_ident: \177ELF
>       e_ident[EI_CLASS]: 2 (ELFCLASS64)
>        e_ident[EI_DATA]: 1 (ELFDATA2LSB)
>     e_ident[EI_VERSION]: 1 (EV_CURRENT)
>       e_ident[EI_OSABI]: 0 (ELFOSABI_SYSV)
>  e_ident[EI_ABIVERSION]: 0
>                  e_type: 4 (ET_CORE)
>               e_machine: 62 (EM_X86_64)
>               e_version: 1 (EV_CURRENT)
>                 e_entry: 0
>                 e_phoff: 40
>                 e_shoff: 0
>                 e_flags: 0
>                e_ehsize: 40
>             e_phentsize: 38
>                 e_phnum: 3
>             e_shentsize: 0
>                 e_shnum: 0
>              e_shstrndx: 0
> Elf64_Phdr:
>                  p_type: 4 (PT_NOTE)
>                p_offset: 232 (e8)
>                 p_vaddr: 0
>                 p_paddr: 0
>                p_filesz: 556 (22c)
>                 p_memsz: 0 (0)
>                 p_flags: 0 ()
>                 p_align: 0
> Elf64_Phdr:
>                  p_type: 1 (PT_LOAD)
>                p_offset: 4096 (1000)
>                 p_vaddr: 10000000000
>                 p_paddr: 0
>                p_filesz: 3758096384 (e0000000)
>                 p_memsz: 3758096384 (e0000000)
>                 p_flags: 7 (PF_X|PF_W|PF_R)
>                 p_align: 4096
> Elf64_Phdr:
>                  p_type: 1 (PT_LOAD)
>                p_offset: 3758100480 (e0001000)
>                 p_vaddr: 10100000000
>                 p_paddr: 100000000
>                p_filesz: 536870912 (20000000)
>                 p_memsz: 536870912 (20000000)
>                 p_flags: 7 (PF_X|PF_W|PF_R)
>                 p_align: 4096
> Elf64_Nhdr:
>                n_namesz: 4 ("CORE")
>                n_descsz: 336
>                  n_type: 1 (NT_PRSTATUS)
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000003 0000007fbffffad0
>                          000001011fada244 0000000000000004
>                          00000000000001c7 000001011fada240
>                          0000000000000246 0000007fbffff201
>                          0000007fbffff760 0000007fbffff508
>                          000001011fada370 0000007fbffff201
>                          0000000000000004 0000010111a49ef8
>                          000001011fada244 ffffffffffffffff
>                          ffffffff80177cf8 0000000000000010
>                          0000000000010202 0000010111a49ea0
>                          0000000000000018 0000002a9589fb00
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> Elf64_Nhdr:
>                n_namesz: 4 ("CORE")
>                n_descsz: 136
>                  n_type: 3 (NT_PRPSINFO)
>                          0000000000005200 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0078756e696c6d76
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>                          0000000000000000
> Elf64_Nhdr:
>                n_namesz: 4 ("CORE")
>                n_descsz: 16
>                  n_type: 4 (NT_TASKSTRUCT)
>                          0000010041f697f0 0000000000000000
> Elf64_Nhdr:
>                n_namesz: 4 ("CORE")
>                n_descsz: 4
>                  n_type: 70000001 (NT_DISKDUMP)
>                          00000001
> crash: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.ELsmp: not a supported file format
>
> Usage:
>   crash [-h [opt]][-v][-s][-i file][-d num] [-S] [mapfile] [namelist] [dumpfile]
>
> Enter "crash -h" for details.

/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.ELsmp?

Use the vmlinux file (with an 'x').

Dave


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